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Gov. Terry McAuliffe backed the NBA's push to remove Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling this morning, but he brushed aside comparisons between Sterling's racism and the Washington Redskins name. "Absolutely," the governor told WTOP 103.5 FM, which asked whether he supported the NBA's announced life-time ban for the owner. "People should stop going to the games if this gentleman is any way involved in it," McAuliffe said. "Let's get him out of the league, let's get him out as an owner." But when Debra Feinstein asked whether McAuliffe's self-described "zero tolerance" for Sterling's racism translates to...

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FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2010, file photo, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling looks on during the second half of an NBA preseason basketball game between the Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles. The NBA is investigating a report of an audio recording in which a man...

Daniel Snyder is younger, more lucid and owns a more valuable sports franchise than Donald Sterling. But in this way the two egocentric billionaires from opposite coasts are very much alike:
They are used to getting their way, recoil when they might...

Steve Ballmer is the richest team owner in the world, according to a list released by Forbes of the world's wealthiest billionaires.
The list has Ballmer as the 35th richest man in the world, with a net worth of $21.5 billion.
Ballmer closed the deal to...

Jerry Tarkanian wasn't called Tark the Shark for nothing. Seems the late UNLV basketball coach, whose flouting of NCAA regulations was the stuff of legend, once raised a lot of eyebrows at an NCAA reform gathering when he voted in favor of every...

Hours after a New Orleans judge ordered that he undergo psychiatric examinations by three experts, Saints and Pelicans owner Tom Benson issued a statement Tuesday saying he wants to do that as soon as possible as he fights an effort by his daughter and...

The elderly woman approaches cautiously, like most people who come to his table in the upscale Italian restaurant.
She tells Phil Jackson he knows her son, which, as it turns out, he does. Then she leans in and lowers her voice.
"Good luck,"...

Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chairman Amy Pascal apologized on Thursday for "insensitive" jokes she made about President Barack Obama in emails that were stolen by hackers who recently attacked the studio's computer network.The emails were...

So, what did you want to know during the past year, Chicago?
Well, many of you took to the Internet to find information on how to dead lift, snowboard, hack and hypnotize, according to the city's most-searched terms on Google in 2014. And a lot of you,...

There was a lot of brawling, unnecessary shoving and stomping going on Sunday in the NFL and sadly, it continued Monday in college football. The Rams and Giants got into a brouhaha on the sidelines in Sunday's 37-27 Giants' win after Rams linebacker...

As the coach and president of basketball operations for the Clippers, Doc Rivers offered his support for the NBA players who have recently taken up social causes involving racial issues.
It started with Chicago's Derrick Rose wearing an "I Can't...

This is a nostalgic look back at the sports year. Before we get going, a note to fans of Danica Patrick, Kim Jong Un and Will Muschamp's gameplans.
Except for the stuff about Jameis Winston being a North Korean spy, this is largely satirical. So as Aaron...

How difficult has 2014 been for Roger Goodell? The embattled NFL commissioner tumbled from second to fifth on the annual Sports Business Journal list of the 50 most influential people in sports.
It's the lowest ranking since 2006 for Goodell, who was...

Going into Friday's news conference in New York, the question was whether Roger Goodell would resign. Coming out of it, the question is whether he will be fired.
Not likely. This corporate employee served well his corporate bosses, the 32 NFL owners.
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The Clippers used a new starting small forward Monday against the Charlotte Hornets.
It was nothing to get overly excited about; the change came only because Matt Barnes was sidelined because of a sore left calf.
Reggie Bullock made his first career NBA...

(in predicted order of finish)
1. Spurs
2013-14: 62-20.
Coming: Kyle Anderson.
Going: No one of significance.
Despite all of their sustained success, the Spurs have never won back-to-back titles. In fact they never had reached the NBA Finals in...

A new topic up for debate in the NBA is an old topic: The length of the season.And guess what?People are saying it's still too long.In the latest version, superstars LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki believe 82 games are way too many,...

Since Steve Ballmer bought the Clippers for $2 billion, he has seemingly done anything and everything to disassociate the team from the Donald Sterling era.
His decision to hire Gillian Zucker as president of business operations, which the team announced...

Red wine soothes the body. So says Amar'e Stoudemire, and so says anyone who might have a glass or two at the end of a long day. Stoudemire, however, hasn't been drinking in an effort to return to form with two surgically repaired knees. He's been bathing...

Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin referred to former team owner Donald Sterling as a "weird uncle" and new owner Steve Ballmer as a "cool dad" in a piece he authored for The Players' Tribune.
Griffin wrote that he wasn't...

Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti better not be lying.
He left himself open to be put in the same class as former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling on Monday after a nearly 50-minute press conference in which he disputed a recently published report...